3
Against him came up Salamanassar king of the Assyrians; and Osee became his servant, and rendered him tribute.
4
And the king of the Assyrians found iniquity in Osee, in that he sent messengers to Segor king of Egypt, and brought not a tribute to the king of the Assyrians in that year: and the king of the Assyrians besieged him, and bound him in the prison-house.
5
And the king of the Assyrians went up against all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6
In the ninth year of Osee the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to the Assyrians, and settled them in Alae, and in Abor, the rivers of Gozan, and the mountains of the Medes.
7
For it came to pass that the children of Israel transgressed against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and they feared other gods,